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kristenaz    0

kristenaz
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Hi everyone!

My name is Kristen and I am from Arizona. I am really nervous (and excited) because my surgery is this coming Tuesday. I have a lot to lose (currently at 295!) I never thought I would let myself go and get to this point. I have a lot of bad habits to break and I hope that the band will help me take control and make big changes for my health. I am looking forward to looking through the posts and hearing your stories. How long can I expect to be off work? I am a kindergarten teacher and not sure if I will feel good enough after a week to be on my feet and run around like crazy with all the kiddos. Any pre-surgery advice would be greatly apprieciated.

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S2b    18

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Hi Kristen,

Just wanted to say Hi !!

I am also having my surgery on Tuesday.

We can do this !!

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Hi everyone!

My name is Kristen and I am from Arizona. I am really nervous (and excited) because my surgery is this coming Tuesday. I have a lot to lose (currently at 295!) I never thought I would let myself go and get to this point. I have a lot of bad habits to break and I hope that the band will help me take control and make big changes for my health. I am looking forward to looking through the posts and hearing your stories. How long can I expect to be off work? I am a kindergarten teacher and not sure if I will feel good enough after a week to be on my feet and run around like crazy with all the kiddos. Any pre-surgery advice would be greatly apprieciated.

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Hi Kristen, being on your feet will help but you will also need to be able to rest after surgery. For me the biggest effect was the anaesthetic so I took two weeks off. Hope that helps and best of luck

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You will be ok in about 5 days. I was scared, too, but the worst for me was the shot in the hand to put me to sleep. haha I'm such a sissy. You need to rid your house of any Snacks. I drink Muscle Milk Protein Shakes. vanilla. They will fill you up. Matter-of-fact you can't drink all of it. Be sure to drink your Water and you shouldn't get hungry. Atkins mocha latta are a good fast drink, but the strawberry banana looks clabbered. Awful.

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Hi Kristen,

My name is Pam and I am from North Carolina. I know how you feel, I was also nervous and excited. I had my surgery June 27 and I am doing GREAT. My surgery started about 7:30am and I was home by 3 pm. The actual surgery was less than an hour. You have to be completely awake before the hospital will let you go home. I had took a week off because I had plenty of vacation and it was also around July 4th dring that period. Many people go back to work in 3-5 days.

I had to do the Adkins diet 2 weeks prior to surgery to help shrink the liver and I guess loss a little weight. You will loose around 10lbs and that gets u really excited! If you have any more questions, please contact me. I have lost over 40 lbs and I feel great!:P

oint. I have a lot of bad habits to break and I hope that the band will help me take control and make big changes for my health. I am looking forward to looking through the posts and hearing your stories. How long can I expect to be off work? I am a kindergarten teacher and not sure if I will feel good enough after a week to be on my feet and run around like crazy with all the kiddos. Any pre-surgery advice would be greatly apprieciated.

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kristenaz    0

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Good luck on Tuesday. Let me know how it goes! :rolleyes:

Hi Kristen,

Just wanted to say Hi !!

I am also having my surgery on Tuesday.

We can do this !!

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kristenaz    0

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Hi Pam!

That is so exciting to hear how much weight you have already lost. Wow! My doctor has me only doing a 3 day Protein diet pre-surgery. It has been a tough weekend only eating 1 meal per day (the other 2 is the Protein Powder mixed with Jello or pudding - yuck!) My surgery is first thing in the morning and they say I should be home by noon. I will keep you posted...:)

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Thats good to hear. I had heard that 5 days was okay if you are going back to a desk job, but being a teacher and never getting to sit down I was worried if I will be able to handle it. I'm sure it will be fine. Thanks for your input! :)

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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